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Microsoft responded to a report published last week by London-based security intelligence firm Mi2g Ltd. that claimed the Apple Macintosh operating system (OS) and certain varieties of Unix are less vulnerable to attack than the popular Windows and Linux operating systems.
The report, a summary of which was released to the public by Mi2g, attributed 44% of the software vulnerabilities announced in the first 10 months of 2002 to Microsoft's Windows operating system and 19% to the open-source Linux operating system. By comparison, the company attributed only 1.9% to Apple Computer's Macintosh OS.
In an interview, Mike Nash, vice president of the security business unit at Microsoft, said that he feels those numbers are misleading.
"Essentially what (Mi2g) has done is look at a combination of vulnerabilities announced by vendors and new vulnerabilities reported by users," Nash said. "There's no way to determine if the same issue is counted multiple times, or if erroneous vulnerabilities are being reported."
Products with more customers, like Microsoft Windows, are bound to have more vulnerabilities reported under such a system, regardless of whether those products are less or more secure than the competition, according to Nash.
Jan Anderson, a member of Mi2g's Intelligence Unit, says that the small size of the Macintosh operating system's user base -- what Mi2g refers to as "security through obscurity" -- does not entirely account for Mi2g's results, however.
"Our main point here is that although only about 3% of systems are running Mac OS, the proportion of attacks suffered by these systems is 60 times less than this, i.e., 0.05%. There are also relatively few known vulnerabilities of Mac OS as stated in the news release," Anderson said.
The issue may come down to which vulnerabilities get counted and which don't.
In a statement, Mi2g said that the company is in touch with Microsoft at a senior level and that the two companies are working together to deal with the issue of vulnerability counting.
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